Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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And his administration has many fruitful years yet to run if Providence wills. There is a great work yet to be done here, but the Chancellor and his faculties know what it is and how to do it, and, with aid of a sympathetic board of trustees and generous benefactors, it will be gradually yet rapidly accomplished. The endowment at the present time amounts to $2,086,351.80, the annual income from tuition (1906-7) is $179,616.48 and from all sources $662,074.50. The expenditures (1906-7) for salaries alone amount to considerably more than $200,000. The net resources of the university are $4,163,467.09. These figures are given to furnish the reader with a more definite idea of the financial status and transactions of the institution. In 1894, the year in which Chancellor Day began his administration, the income from tuition was but $19,968.95 and the entire income amounted to COLLEGE OF LAW $165,395.55, while the property complete totaled $1,780,825.54. Compare these figures with those given above and the reader will see at a glance the marvelous advance of the last thirteen years. The number of resident students in 1894 was 652, in 1906-7, 3,005. The greatest financial uplift in its history was the royal gift of $400,000 by John D. Archbold, president of the board of trustees, which, with the money raised to meet the wise condition, paid the debt and added to the endowment. The same gentleman has furnished the means for many of the recent develop- ments. Those who have made the smaller gifts have done it out of smaller means and deserve credit with donors of larger benefactions. The latter have made notable gifts. A few of these donors are: Bishop Peck, Eliphalet and Philo Rem- ington, Erastus F. Holden, John Lyman, James J. Belden, John and Edgar Grouse, Lyman C. Smith, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel W. Bowne, Francis H. Root and Mrs. Russell Sage.

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progress to material, development. It would not be difficult to point to note- worthy progress in internal development. The pace of colleges has been fast during the last quarter of a century. It would almost startle any reader famil- iar with such matters to make a comparison of present conditions in any Amer- ican college with those of three decades ago. Entrance requirements have been greatly advanced as the High schools have become more proficient and capable of meeting them. Courses in every department of learning have been multi- plied in number, varied in character and bettered in quality, graduate work has immensely increased, the range of individual teaching has necessarily been re- stricted and narrowed, and in consequence the teaching force has been enlarged; endowments have mounted into millions. Syracuse university has kept pace fairly well with these changes and steps of progress. A study of the catalogues COLLE GE OF MEDICINE alone would reveal this, but it is most fully realized by one who has been in con- tinuous service during the evolutionary period. Fortunately for Syracuse, Chancellor Day not only entered on his work with words of sincere praise for his predecessors, but also with a quick apprehension of the needs of the institution, an earnest sympathy with the inspirations of the various departments, a determined purpose to supply every facility to put the university afront with the best, a fertility of resources, and a faith and opti- mism that wrought miracles. Dr. Day found three colleges in operation, Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, and Medi- cine, lie has added three, Law, Applied Science and Teachers, and all six have been equally the object of his anxious solicitude. All have been pushed forward to a condition of the utmost efficiency. All are open to men and women on equal terms. He has made Syracuse university the talk and wonder of the nation. 1 6

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Now let us consider briefly the material progress under the Day adminis- tration. By purchase three notable properties have been acquired: (1) Thirty- lour acres adjoining the original campus of fifty acres were purchased in 1901 of the Raynor estate, making an elegant site of eighty-four acres; (2) The pres- ent Law College building was the residence of the late John Grouse and was ac- quired in 1904. It is a fine property, located on Fayette park, conveniently near the new Court House and the law offices; (3) The Yates or Renwick castle grounds, now the Teachers college, was added in 1905. There are fourteen acres beautifully laid out and adjoining on the west the college campus. There are the castle, the lodge; there are drives, rustic bridges, and lawns. The col- lege is located in the castle. ' COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE It is a pretty large task to enumerate the buildings erected by Chancellor Day. It is doubtful if such activity has been equalled in the same time by any other college. We count fourteen buildings, most of them of large cost, two of them requiring each a princely fortune. (1) The College of Medicine comes first. It was erected in 1896 and is a commodious 4-story building. It is planned and constructed to meet in the approved maimer the requirements of medical education of the present day. (2) The University block, ten stories, the largest commercial building in the interior of the State. It is occupied by stores and offices and has an assembly hall of 400 seats. (3) The Esther Baker Steele Hall of Physics, Mrs. Steele being the princi- pal donor. This was the first building erected on the campus under this admin- istration. 18